Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies

SonicSpike writes with this news from Reason magazine: Cody Wilson, famous for making the first usable fully plastic 3D printed handgun and for his new project "Ghost Gunner" which mills metal lower receivers (the milling machine itself is of course not a weapon, and what it makes is not itself legally a weapon) for AR-15s, [informed me Monday] that his online payment processor Stripe has decided that his companies, all of them, qualify as forbidden "weapons and munitions; gunpowder and other explosives" services. This includes the Ghost Gunner and Defense Distributed.

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Re:One company makes a decision about another...

[damn_registrars]

Because it's kinda like Entity A (a company) doesn't want to do business (hire) Entity B (a black homosexual 65 year old man). Do you still not see a problem?

You're really not comparing apples to apples, here. However if you really want to play that particular - and disconnected - card, then you need to ask why your mythical company A did not hire person B. If there was someone else who was better qualified for the position, then there is no problem. There are even intangible qualifications that can be counted in the process, such as fitness for the physical requirements or availability of reliable transportation to the site.

In other words you cannot win by trying to play that card in a vacuum. The real world doesn't work that way.